From Octavia Butler to N.K Jemisin, Black Feminist and Queer Theories in Science
Through the analytical lenses offered by Black feminist and queer theories, this course engages works of Black speculative fiction as modes of theorizing questions of race, gender, sexuality, class, environmental justice, interpersonal politics, and more. Through course readings, seminar discussions, and creative writing projects, students will critically analyze works of speculative fiction written by Black authors and broaden their knowledge of Black speculative literature, with a particular focus on science fiction and fantasy. Prerequisites: This course doesn't have any Pre Requisites
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Tagged With: Writing & CommunicationsEducation, Ethnic & Gender Studies
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Dixieland? - Literature and Culture of the American South
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Race, Gender & Horror: Reading Psychoanalysis in American Film & Fiction
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Social Change
Do you enjoy making meaningful art, being creative, and being part of an engaged and caring community? This course will provide an opportunity for you to cultivate a creative practice, engage in dialogue about the potential for art to be a catalyst for social change, and build a critical toolbox of resources and experiences to strengthen individual and collaborative art-making. Experienced and novice art makers, musicians, dancers, poets, and multimedia creators will find new ways to channel your creative energies into an Action Plan with community impact. Through a contemporary and historical lens, you will explore the relationship between the self and the collective to understand better the collaborative relationship between the “artist” and the “audience.” You will leave this course prepared to continue developing a socially-conscious creative practice in their community.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyVisual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsModern Culture & MediaPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Activism
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Writing from the Heart: Empathy and Ethnographic Writing Seminar
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Healthcare Communication: Empathy, Social Media, False Data
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Understanding Evolution: Theory, Evidence, Implications & Controversy
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Mythology
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Playing with Death: Games in the Ancient World
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The Quest for Immortality in the Ancient World
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"All of them Witches!": Race, Gender, and Witchcraft in Popular Culture
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20th Century Literary Movements and Theories
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Apocalypse Now
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Beyond the Book: Text, Image, and Experiments in the In-between
This course will explore the possibilities of what we can make, quite literally, from our own experience: what happens when our hand doesn’t stop moving, goes from writing to visual art, and back again? We will draw on a combination of creative nonfiction, poetry, and collage, and, working from personal experience and the world around us, make physical objects (chapbooks, hybrid essays, comics, etc.) that blend forms and themes and ask: what is “creative work”? In what ways can social media and technology contribute to the creative process, and how can they help us see alternative examples of the “book”? How can they hinder it? How can we look at the personal—our past and present experience, the ways we interact with the world, the ways we talk to ourselves and synthesize our surroundings—as a way to connect with individuals and the world at large?
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Tagged With: Visual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingEnglish & World LiteratureModern Culture & Media
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Comedy and Cruelty
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Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
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Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry
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Experimental Writing
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How Poetry Matters: Reading Experimental Poetry in the Pandemic Era
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Innovative Writing Across Media: An Introduction to the College Workshop
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Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
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Introduction to Fiction Writing
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Language and Social Justice
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Law and Literature
This course considers how law and literature contribute jointly to our sense of justice and our understanding of injustice. Through novels, poetry, film, legal writings, and legal opinions, we examine how law and literature create interrelated narratives that shed light on issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureLegal StudiesModern Culture & MediaPolitical Science
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Law and Literature
What is the relationship between law and literature? How do these supposedly separate disciplines contribute to our sense of justice and our understanding of injustice? We examine these questions through novels, legal writings, legal opinions, and film, in order to discover how law and literature create interrelated narratives that shed light on issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence. We read literary and legal narratives to see to how they inform each other, but also illuminate each other’s blind spots.
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Tagged With: English & World LiteratureLegal StudiesWriting & Communications
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Literature, Culture, and American Identities
America has been described as a melting pot and a nation of immigrants, but what does it mean to be an “American” and to claim an “American” identity? This course will introduce students to the study of personal and group identity in U.S. literature and culture. Crossing multiple genres, historical periods, and cultural forms (fiction, film, TV), we will examine a diverse range of texts by African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish American, and Native American writers. We will ask how these writers have come to understand the United States, and how they have used literary and cultural expression to represent their own experiences and the experiences of their communities in the U.S.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesModern Culture & Media
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Love Stories
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Medical Diagnostics: Observation, Interpretation, the Art of Being a Better MD
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Monstrosities: The Meaning of Monsters in the Modern World
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Multimedia Storytelling
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OTP [One True Pairing]: The Courtship Plot from Jane Austen to Jane the Virgin
What’s love got to do with it? This course examines how the courtship plot, from meet-cute to marriage, shapes cultural understandings not only of romance, but also of gender, race, class, sexuality, and genre. In this course, you will engage critically with novels from the nineteenth century to the present, alongside films and TV shows. The course seeks to enable you to become better readers, critics, and writers.
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Tagged With: Creative WritingEnglish & World LiteratureWriting & Communications
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Putting Your Ideas Into Words
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Read, Think, Write - Approaching the College Essay
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Reading, Writing, Traveling: An Exploration in Creative Nonfiction
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Suspicious Minds: American Literature and the Paranoid Imagination
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Web-Based Language Art
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Writing Flash Fiction
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Writing for College Admissions
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Writing for College and Beyond
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Writing Seminar I: Presenting Yourself in Words
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Writing Seminar II: Writing About Media
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Writing Seminar III: Composing the Academic Essay
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Writing Speculative Fiction
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Immersive Italian
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Screening Social Justice in the Spanish-Speaking World
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"In the Good Old Days" - The Idea of Nostalgia
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A People's History of War in America
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World War II: A Global History from Below
The largest and deadliest conflict in human history, World War II dramatically transformed the modern world. This course will look at the war from the bottom up, exploring the experiences of ordinary people from across the world. In particular, centering the opportunities and challenges the war presented to members of marginalized groups in uniform, in occupied territory, and returning home after the war. Students will analyze a variety of primary and secondary sources through class discussion and assignments, drawing conclusions about the agency of these individuals as well as the social, cultural, and political legacies of the war. Students will analyze a variety of primary and secondary sources through class discussion and short papers, drawing conclusions about the agency of these individuals as well as the social, cultural, and political legacies of the war.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesPolitical Science
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Documentary Production and Practice
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Sound and Story: Introduction to Podcasting and Audio Journalism
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The *@#%* Media: Enough Disinformation!
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"Who Run the World? Girls": Women's Music for Social Change
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Arguing About Arguing and Thinking About Thinking
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: Current Issues in Feminist Philosophy
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Political Theory Through Science Fiction: Utopias, Dystopias and Allegories
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Posting Power - Digital Media and the Transformation of Politics
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The International Human Rights of Political and Environmental Migrations
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Freud: Psychoanalysis and Its Legacies
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Racism and Health: From a Physiological to Societal Perspective
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Leadership and Intercultural Communication
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Acting
Acting is about doing! Explore your unique potential. You will develop valuable acting, collaboration, and communication skills. This is a useful, challenging, and fun exploration of the art of acting.
In class, students work on scenes, applying new techniques. There will be multiple presentations of scene work, the final one open to the public. Develop physical, vocal, emotional, and intellectual skills. CREATE a supportive collaborative space. Have fun exploring!
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Tagged With: Performing & Media ArtsEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Culture War Bootcamp: Curation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship in the Arts
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Effective Communication: Presenting to the Public
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Persuasive Communication
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Persuasive Communication and Public Speaking
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Presenting to the Public
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Something to Offer and Something to Learn: Becoming a Better Communicator
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Writing for Performance/Designing Creative Inquiry
Humans not only communicate through stories, we build our lives around them. We inherit stories, invent them through both necessity and imagination; we justify wars based on stories, we create borders based on stories, we make stories out of love and family and fear and longing and joy. The ability to focus on a story, to follow a line of curiosity, or inquiry, has powerful implications for discovery and for how we shape the future of our world. Constructing a rigorous creative practice is one of the most exciting and important things we can do. This course will provide a workshop setting in which those who are interested in storytelling, in writing, in play (playwriting, play-making), in the big ideas that shape our lives, will focus on the development of a single performance text.
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Tagged With: Creative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsWriting & CommunicationsMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Queer Strategies of Resistance: Fools, Tricksters, Shapeshifters
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